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Author Mandelbaum, Michael

Title The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (625 p.)
Contents Cover -- The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Independence, 1765-​1788 -- The Origins of the American Revolution -- The Path to War -- The North American War -- The European War -- The Constitution and Foreign Policy -- 2. In the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1788-​1815 -- The New Republic -- Federalist Foreign Policy -- Louisiana -- Republican Foreign Policy -- The War of 1812 -- 3. The Continental Republic, 1815-​1865 -- The United States and Great Britain -- Growth -- Territorial Expansion
The Mexican War -- The Civil War -- 4. Great-​Power Debut, 1865-​1914 -- The Foundations of Great Power -- Spheres of Influence -- East Asia -- Empire -- Two Visions -- 5. The Offshore Balancer, 1914-​1933 -- The United States and World War I -- The United States in World War I -- The Peace Conference -- Postwar Foreign Policy: Security -- Postwar Foreign Policy: Economics -- 6. The Arsenal of Democracy, 1933-​1945 -- The Collapse of the Peace -- The World at War -- America at War -- Reversal of Fortune -- The Endgame -- 7. The Contest of Systems, 1945-​1953 -- Year Zero
The Creation of the West -- The Origins of the Cold War -- The Division of Asia -- The Korean War -- 8. War Improbable, Peace Impossible, 1953-​1979 -- Learning to Live with the Bomb -- A World Split in Three -- The Vietnam War -- Détente -- Shocks -- 9. A Superpower Dies in Bed, 1979-​1990 -- Annus horribilis -- Counterattack -- The Crucial Decade -- Détente II -- The End of the Cold War -- 10. The New World Order, 1990-​2001 -- The Gulf War -- Globalization -- Humanitarian Intervention -- Russia -- The Middle East -- 11. Back to the Future, 2001-​2015 -- September 11 and Its Aftermath
Gulf War II -- The Financial Crisis -- The Reset -- The End of the Post-​Cold War Era -- Notes -- Index
Summary In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, the eminent authority on American foreign policy Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that history into four distinct periods, each of them defined by the consistent increase in the power the country has had at its disposal in its relations with other countries
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197621813
0197621813